recover 50,000 gallons of oil a day. a real industrial application. we re here ready to the b deployed and the team from stewart, florida, is with me and we re waiting for the word. mike: charles, b.p. talked to you. are they turning you loose to go or are they still looking at it? we re partnered with mid-gulf recovery and they are under contract to provide infrastructure and support to b.p. we re discussing with them now how we can join in that effort and go out and treat the oil and treat the water. we can do this at the well site and the marshlands. by putting highly oxygenated water down the pipe at the well site with millions of nano bubbles that will have a lot of buoyancy and they will adhere to the oil. rather than having the oil disbursed throughout the water column as it is with the dispersants now, the water would rise in a cone in an area controlled and we can treat it at the surface before it reaches the
this for a long time. we re asphalt paving contractor. we use this for erosion control and the asphalt products when it rains, washes off the road and this cleans it up. that s how we came up with the idea. mike: how long have you been doing? all my life but 25 for myself and 20 for my dad as a child. mike: this is not just you just thought might work. you have seen it work and for over 25 years you take hay, what you have done is put the hay on top of oil. put hey on oil. now you are scooping it up. mike: darrell a scooping that up. a lot of people have seen the particular demonstration on youtube. it has had 10 million hits. has anyone from b.p. called and said hey, bring hay down here? no, sir. mike: why not? we don t know. mike: that doesn t make sense to me. this is simple. is there any big environmental impact from putting hay in the gulf and scooping it up? no, sir. mike: otis, what do you have there? it looks like shamwow. this is a fabric we have toda
we used the mat with the spill in san francisco in 2007. but she showed up in the gulf with the pantyhose she had stuffed they told her it wasn t e.p.a. approved. our product is e.p.a. approved. mike: you say it s not e.p.a. approved but out of curiosity, is there any dodge that could be done fill damage that could be done to fill up pantyhose with hair? i doubt it. people put hair in the ocean when they swim. it s not like the ocean never had hair. it couldn t be worse than the oil. sounds like a little bureaucracy. mike: no! bureaucracy? surely not. i have to say, our product, this product here is e.p.a. approved. it has been approved to use in the gulf. mike: i wish i had this for the girl in front of me in the third grade, i could have used it to oil out her hair. but that is a whole nother story and i m not going there. yes, indeed. we re going to go to i m in big trouble. we re going to new orleans next. we ll talk with someone who has a machine that does have b
yes. our standard size is a square foot. square foot of this mat will absurd quart of oil in less than two minutes. ring it out, we sell ringers to go with it. ring it out and recover 200 ports of oil, 50 gallons. same product. mike: recover the oil? recover the oil. mike: you can use the oil? you can get the oil back. it doesn t pick up 1% water. mike: good grief. look at that! [ applause ] there is nothing in there but hair. just hair. we have a flotation device inside, thin piece to keep it afloat. mike: picked up every bit of that like that. take this, run it through a ringer and you can get 98% of the oil out of it and reuse this 200 time. and we recovered 50 gallons of oil. mike: the same piece of air you could use 200 different times? different times. get a quart of oil each time. mike: is this used in the
you here. here today, gone tomorrow. but today it s here today, gone tomorrow with hair. it s hair? 100% human hair. mike: i could use it here. cut you off a piece. mike: lovely. so where does the hair come from and how did you get this idea? well, the idea is from the prince william sound oil spill, observing the otters in the water. i took care of homes and i created oil spill in the kitty pool and got gallon of used oil out of the water the two minutes. mike: wow! you are going to pour oil. we created so many oil spills i lost count of how many we created. i m stepping back. i decided. i ll be careful. mike: so far by the end of the show i ll have an oil change instead of clothing change. this is hair. talk about a new way to say he has a rug on. it looks like carpet. put it in there?